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The best EBU tournament of the year is, IMHO, the Schapiro Spring Foursomes, held at the beginning of May in…
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I couldn’t help snorting when I came across an article in the Guardian last week (about the ongoing legal battle…
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When I first started playing bridge, about 15 years ago, I ‘trained’ at TGR’s rubber bridge club, which was located…
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Congratulations to the Welsh women’s team, who staged one of the most spectacular comebacks I’ve ever seen at last weekend’s…
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When I was growing up, the loudest, most explosive arguments erupted when my parents played bridge together. Not surprisingly, when…
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Bridge has always been a game of highs and lows, but what happened to Janet de Botton and her partner…
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Wednesday night is league night. Sacrosanct. I’ve missed only one in seven years and that was when my daughter was…
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Janet de Botton and I decided to spice things up a bit at the Young Chelsea heat of the nationwide…
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You either love rubber bridge or you hate it. Personally I love it: I love the freedom it gives you…
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Why do men always yell at the television or keep up a running commentary while watching sport? My husband does…
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What a week it’s been. On Thursday night the incomparable Terry Hewett held her annual charity bonanza Night of the…
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Bridge players never get bored of each other’s company for one simple reason: interesting hands are like juicy bits of…
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Couples that play together stay together is not a mantra you hear too often in the bridge world. Indeed most…
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Before returning to Australia about a decade ago, Michael Courtney spent several years playing high-stake rubber bridge in London. Those…
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There is something decidedly Groundhog Day about the international bridge calendar. The second weekend of January is TGR’s Auction Pairs…
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If you and your partner ever want to improve your bidding system, I can’t recommend Phil King highly enough as…
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2015 got off to a rollicking start with TGR’s sixth Auction Pairs — chief rollickers being the Norwegians, whose unparalleled…
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This may sound odd, given its male-only membership, but the Portland is one of my favourite bridge clubs. I’m one…
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The last tournament of the year is the hugely popular one-day Swiss Teams in the EBU’s Year End Congress in…
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It’s surprising how many perfectly good bridge players lack confidence when it comes to squeeze plays. They seem to think…
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Pierre Zimmermann, captain of the hugely successful Monaco team, plays with Franck Multon and they are probably the best sponsor/professional…
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I witnessed utter carnage at the bridge table the other week. I was watching the European Champions Cup online when…
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Last weekend saw the start of the Tollemache qualifier, the inter-county teams of eight championship. Thirty-five teams competed in four…
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It’s one of the burning political issues of the day: why don’t more MPs play bridge? Two weeks ago, the…
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It’s always good to know where you draw the line and my line, drawn in thick black ink, was going…
